Say Goodbye to those ESPN Personalities Ya'll Love So Much: Official ESPN Layoffs Thread

[Malta]

FreeDawkins & Downtobuck > ESPN

 

[Poitier]

bye bye

 

[NigerianDonDada]

 

[Mr210]

I'm curious to see who is cut

As long as I have bomani and ruseillo and kanell I'm good

 

[Sauce Dab]

Those personalities gone be walking on eggshells these next few weeks trying to do everything they can to not get fired :FrancisWave:

 

[Poitier]

how much fukkin execs to keep jobs yall think gone happen

 

[reserved_one]

As long Cassidy Hubbarth doesnt get the ax

 

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Melrose gonna have to go back to hustling his mixtape alongside the 8ths of Mexican brick weed in the gas station parking lot

 

[AquaCityBoy]

FS1 bout to

 

[Primetime]

Unless there's a game, I literally never watch ESPN now.

The personalities were good when it was a small part of the overall presentation.
Craig Kilborn and Stuart Scott were just naturally allowing their personalities to shine thru in their broadcasts. But it was never a forced gimmick the way it is with the screaming SAS or the pugnacious Skip Bayless.
When you watched ESPN, you just wanted the highlights.

Now ESPN is just the Cable News of sports, which is to say opinion shows and Cola Wars (I think X team is better. I think Y team is better. Thank you, that's all the time we have. See you next time)



That's the downfall of their product.
But that's not the reason for the cuts. They just negotiated terrible contracts with the NFL and NBA.
ESPN will survive and will probably renegotiate better contracts in the future. But it'll never be a particularly "watchable" channel.

Not to me, anyway.

How long has it been since that NFL CTE fukkery where they acted brand new towards PBS once the NFL told them to fall back on that honest journalism shyt?

That was the last time i ever watched an espn show or visited their website, outside of watching NBA (playoff) games that i couldn't catch on league pass.

But now with how much better reddit streams are + league pass on the computer + netflix... i straight up cut my cable last summer and haven't looked back.

In truth, it got to the point where there really was no appeal in watching a nationally telecast NBA game (ESPN or TNT) over a local broadcast b/c outside of JVG and Mark Jackson, the personalities aren't anything special.

And i find more fukkery in hearin people on this msg board give their post game analysis and post embedded twitter/ig links than i do tuning in to some morning radio show or first take.

 

[Admiral Ackbar]

ESPN has been on a slow decline since 2002 or so. Neal and Stan would have fit in on prime ESPN. Shame if they get cut.

 

[Redguard]

how much fukkin execs to keep jobs yall think gone happen

A lot.

 

[ALonelyDad]

ESPN has done a terrible job transitioning to the internet..BR as trash as it is are owning the online shyt, the apps, etc.

 

[ezrathegreat]

:LookatthatTI_1: Hopefully Jemele Hill is on that list.

 

[dh86]

We just saw Marcellus Wiley on SC today breaking down Clippers-Jazz smh